The World’s on the Brink of Running Out of Places to Put Oil
- Surplus to exceed storage capacity in first half of 2020: IHS
- Coronavirus hammering oil demand just as producers lift supply
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The world will run out of places to store oil in as little as three months, according to an industry consultant.
IHS Markit said that current rates of supply and demand mean inventories will increase by 1.8 billion barrels over the first half of 2020. With only an estimated 1.6 billion barrels of storage capacity still available, producers will be forced to cut output because by June there’ll be no place left to put the unwanted crude, it said.